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Friday, July 22, 2005

 

lucha libre!

Yesterday I was scanning the New York Times online when I came across this which is one of the craziest things I have seen in a while. Basically, there is this new WWF type wrestling league which features indigenous women. In Bolivia. Now, I have a greater interest that most in all things Bolivian since I spent a semester there when I was in college. The indigenous women in Bolivia, in some bizarre colonial vestigewhich no one can quite explain, wear bowler hats and these big skirts. And apparently (according to the photo of a cholita flying through the air) that is also what they wear when the wrestle. Now, WWF is crazy enough. But in developing countries everything is a little less regulated. You can buy prescription medication by the pill without a prescription, stoplights are helpful suggestions but not mandatory, and crosses by the side of dangerous roads are lovingly referred to as 'caution signs'. So wrestling must be insane. Lucha Libre in Mexico is supposed to be like celebrity death match with spangly costumes and full head masks. I would pay big bucks to see this, though apparently it only costs $1. It might even be worth a trip to Bolivia.

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